28 July: today's birthdays

  • Bruce Abbott - American actor. He was Dan Cain in the film Re-Animator, based on Herbert West–Reanimator, a book by H. P. Lovecraft 
  • Étienne-Émile Boutroux - French philosopher and an historian of philosophy.
  • Ernst Cassirer - German philosopher. He wrote The Philosophy of the Enlightenment and The Myth of the State
  • Hugo Chávez - Venezuelan politician, 61° president of Venezuela
  • Doug Collins - American basketball coach and former player
  • Marcel Duchamp - French painter and sculptor, important exponent of Dadaism and Surrealism
  • Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach - German philosopher and anthropologist. He wrote The Essence of Christianity
  • Juan Guaidó - Venezuelan engineer and politician, born Juan Gerardo Guaidó Márquez. He is serving as the President of the National Assembly of Venezuela and he proclaimed himself as President of Venezuela.
  • Harry Kane - English professional footballer, born Harry Edward Kane
  • Jacqueline Kennedy - Born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, she was married first to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and then to Aristotle Onassis
  • Riccardo Muti - Italian conductor. He is the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  • Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo - Italian painter, best known for his painting The Fourth Estate, which represents striking workers 
  • Karl Popper - Austrian-born English philosopher and epistemologist
  • Beatrix Potter - English author and illustrator, best known for the creations of the literary character for children Peter Rabbit
  • Alexis Tsipras - Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece
  • Vajiralongkorn - King of Thailand, born Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun
  • William T. Vollman - American journalist and writer. He wrote Europe Central
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